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Invasion of Poland
Invasion of Poland- September, 1939. The Invasion of Poland was the brink of the beginning of the Second World War. Its started on the 1st of September, 1939 when the Wehrmacht used their Blitzkrieg tactics, and swiftly took over control of Poland in under two months. -
The Phony War
Phony War, a name for the early months of World War II, marked by no major hostilities. The term was coined by journalists to derisively describe the six-month period during which no land operations were undertaken by the Allies or the Germans after the German conquest of Poland in September 1939. -
The Battle of France
In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed from 10 May 1940, which ended the Phony War. -
Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was an important battle that took place in Dunkirk, France, during the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and allied forces. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF from July to September 1940. Their ultimate failure was one of the turning points of World War Two and prevented Germany from invading Britain. -
The Rats of Tobruk
The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against the Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk in World War II. The siege started on 10 April 1941 and was finally relieved at the end of November. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on June 22, 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along an 1,800 mile front. -
El Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein was primarily fought between two of the outstanding commanders of WorldWar Two, Montgomery, who succeeded the dismissed Auchinleck, and Rommel. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Hitlers End
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker. -
Germany Surrender
After Hitler's suicide Germans were left with no other chance other than to surrender. On the other hand the soviet troops had entered the German capital, Berlin. The Germans… unconditionally surrendered on May 7,1945. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
